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Peltier Adds to his Legacy with $30,000 All-Star Showdown Victory

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Peltier Adds to his Legacy with a victory in the SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway

Peltier adds to his legacy with a victory in the SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour victory in the All-Star Showdown event at Irwindale Speedway.

Irwindale, CA; Preston Peltier added to his impressive credentials Saturday night at Irwindale Speedway when he took home a victory in a record field of 44 SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series Super Late Models. Peltier came home victorious in the “Sunrise Ford All-Star Showdown 200 presented by the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame”, securing a record SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series payout of $30,000, for a curfew shortened 177 lap victory. It was the second time in three events that the series record for attendees was broken.

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BJ McLeod, Travis Braden Unite in New Short-Track Racing Program

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BJ McLeod, Travis Braden form new short-track development program.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (Jan 19, 2021) — BJ McLeod and Travis Braden join forces to develop a distinctive short track racing program, BJ McLeod Motorsports with Travis Braden. The program plans to provide a professional and turnkey, top-performing environment for developing drivers’ skills as they progress their careers. McLeod and Braden’s decades of experience in asphalt oval track racing complement their mutual goal to assist drivers in reaching their full potential both on and off the track. The broader scope of what their program has to offer is a direct career path to NASCAR which separates the team from many other programs.

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Sato Earns Second Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge Victory

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Takuma Sato earns second Indianapolis 500 victory in the NTT IndyCar Series on Sunday afternoon, August 23, 2020 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Takuma Sato celebrates in Victory Lane after earning his second Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, August 23, 2020, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photo provided by NTT IndyCar

Sato earns second Indianapolis 500 victory in the NTT IndyCar Series on Sunday afternoon, August 23, 2020 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

INDIANAPOLIS (Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020) – Takuma Sato climbed to a higher level of immortality Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, winning the 104th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge and becoming just the 20th driver to capture ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing’ at least twice.

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NASCAR is Making Historic Return to Road Course Racing in Daytona

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NASCAR is making a historic return to road course racing in Daytona. NASCAR founder, Bill France Sr raced the sandy Daytona road course.
Big” Bill France, Sr. (second from left) stands with drivers (L to R) Smokey Purser, Roy Hall and Sammy Packard before a stock car race on the Daytona beach-road course in 1940. Hall won the race with Big Bill finishing fourth, Purser fifth and Packard 19th. Big Bill would eventually give up driving and focus on promoting road course events at Daytona Beach as well as the creation of today’s NASCAR’s Cup Series. Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images
 

NASCAR is making a historic return to road course racing in Daytona. NASCAR founder, Bill France Sr raced the sandy Daytona road course.

As NASCAR’s three national series get ready to make their historic first attempts at the DAYTONA Road Course inside the Daytona International Speedway on Aug. 14-16, let’s take a look back at how road course racing began in Daytona Beach, “The Birthplace of Speed.”

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Superstar Racing Experience Comes to CBS Sports in Primetime

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New Racing Series Created by The Montag Group, Ray Evernham, Tony Stewart and George Pyne To Debut on CBS Saturday Nights in the Summer of 2021

Series to Feature Legends, Icons, and Rising Stars from All Circuits in Full-Tilt, No Pit-Stop, Short-Track Competitions

NEW YORK, N.Y. (July 13, 2020) — CBS Sports and Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), a new sports property created by The Montag Group, NASCAR Hall of Famers Ray Evernham and Tony Stewart, and investor George Pyne have entered into a multi-year partnership to produce a six-race, short-track series that will air Saturday nights in primetime on CBS Television Network and CBS All-Access in the Summer of 2021.

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